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Chapter 6
Plot
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Literature
Undergraduate 2
09/03/2013

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Plot
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is the sequence of events showing characters in conflict. This sequence is not accidental, but is chosen by the author as the best way of telling the story.
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Narrative order
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the order in which events are related, may follow several patterns, but the most common pattern in young children;s literature is the chronological arrangement.
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Chronological order
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if a story relates events in the order of their happening.
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Flashback
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the writer disrupts normal time sequence to recount some episode out of the character's past to make a point about the character and the story.
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When does conflict occur?
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When the protagonist struggles against an antagonist. which makes plot.
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What are the types of conflict?
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1. Person against self
2. Person against person
3. Person against society
4. Person against nature
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Person against self
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usually when a protagonist faces two possible choices, which causes internal conflict.
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Person against person
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the conflict between the protagonist and the antagonist.
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Person against society
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the conflict and unknown outcome, society can be boiled down to a small setting.
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Person against nature
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the conflict between characters and their surroundings.
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Rising action
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begins with a situation that must be shown and explained.
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Exposition
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explanation of the situation and the characters' condition.
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Climax
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the most intent and important part of a story.
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Resolution
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where all the points of the story are resolved.
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Suspense
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a state that makes us read on.
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Cliffhanger
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is an exciting chapter ending that makes it hard to lay the book aside.
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Foreshadowing
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when the author drops clues as to what is coming.
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Sensationalism
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unrelieved suspense.
i.e. Doctor Who in a nutshell.
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Denouement
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begins at the climax, at the point where we feel that the protagonist's fate is known.
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Falling action
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from the denouement, the rest of the plot is dubbed this term.
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Closed ending
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the denouement is closed.
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Open ending
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we are left to draw our own conclusions.
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Progressive plots
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central climaxes followed quickly by denouement.
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Episodic plot
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in which one incident or short episode is linked to another by common characters or by a unified theme.
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Story within a story
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exactly what it sounds like, dude.
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Coincidence
Definition
the concurrence of events apparently by mere chance.
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Sentimentality
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when our sentiments are used or played on as they are in a soap opera.
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